Movie Details
| Title: | Barcelona | |
| Director: | Whit Stillman | |
| Year: | 1994 | |
| Genre: | Comedy | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 11.09.24 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (2)
- The Last Days of Disco
- Metropolitan
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 11.09.24 | Blu-ray | This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2024 roll: 2 spine: 807 After I liked Last Days of Disco more than I thought i would, I picked up Stillman's other two so-called "doomed-bourgeois-in-love" series and it's been nice seeing them over the past few years. They're so similar I'm not sure how a triple feature of all three would go, but one a year makes for a pleasant enough endeavor. I think I wound up liking this one the least of the three but it was still fine and indicative of Stillman's unique voice. The 90s indie scene really was something and I still associate most of these actors with that time. I guess I also know Taylor Nichols from Mike Binder's HBO show too but Chris Eigeman for sure. One stand-out here is an early pre-Mighty Aphrodite performance from Mira Sorvino who plays a Spanish girl. Most all of the women in this are gorgeous but she does stand out... hard to tell if it's just because I know her face or what but I think it's evident even for 1994 audiences. So the setting has changed to late-80s Spain here with some political turmoil as a backdrop but the story is still about intellectual precocious white dudes overthinking their search for love. It's kind of a typical sequel-not-sequel to Metropolitan in that it just kind of delivers more of the same with a tiny bit more money for a special effect explosion and a camera mount for a forklift shot. Pleasant but the minor note between the first and the third for me. Next! |
